The National Football League's Hypocrisy in Canceling Colin Kaepernick

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The United Nations
Summary: First Article
According to Coates, cancel culture did not begin recently. In this article, the author references various people who had been canceled as early as the 19th Century. After that, the author analyzes why many people are against how cancellation is currently being made. The author spends much of his writing exploring the National Football League's hypocrisy in canceling Colin Kaepernick.
The author writes that “The N.F.L. is revered in this country as a paragon of patriotism and chivalry, a sacred trust controlled by some of the wealthiest men and women in America. For the past three years, this sacred trust has executed, with brutal efficiency, the cancellation of Colin Kaepernick” (Coates). The writer says that the N.F.L has hosted child abusers, domestic abusers, and racists in the recent past without canceling anyone. Therefore, punishing Kaepernick for refusing to stand during the national anthem is unethical. Coates asks the public always to remember that Kaepernick is fighting for football or money and liberty and justice for all. Coates concludes that "This isn't a fight for employment at any cost. It is a fight for a world where we are not shot or shunned because the masters of capital, or their agents, do not like our comportment, our attire, or what we have to say.”
Summary: Second Article
In this interview that Roxane Gray gave to Mother Jones, she argues that the cancel culture does not exist. Gray redefines "cancel culture" and refers to it as "consequence culture.” Gray argues that a perceived cancellation, in reality, is that when someone makes a mistake, which every human being is prone to, there should be consequences (Schwartz). However, the mistake has not yet been defined. Moreover, Gray says, "the problem is that we haven’t figured out what consequences should be.”
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